Linked Questions
115 questions linked to/from Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!
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Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast
From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com:
Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality.
Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically
Use obnoxious in-...
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Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions [duplicate]
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as ...
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
Update
Thank you everyone for the feedback you have provided. At this time, we will work through the feedback we have received to help us determine where to take our research on reputation next.
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Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!
This feature is now live across the network.
We've been doing quite a bit of research into ways that we could help new users have better experiences that ultimately lead them to becoming increasingly ...
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We're standardizing the sidebar width at 300px on all sites
Update: this change is now live across the network. You'll still see some narrow 220px ads because it's going to take us a good while to update all of the old ads, but if you see any other style ...
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Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really "good answers"?
I have often wondered at the practice on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says "Look here: https://link ...
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Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where ...
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Magic wand time - what does your community need?
Continuing in my series of questions to you:
Last week, I heard some great origin stories. This week, I’d like to refocus a bit on what could be better (in your view). I’m very curious about whether ...
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A proposed philosophy of question migration
We spend a fair amount of time talking about question migrations between sites. These conversations happen internally, publicly and semi-publicly in the network-wide moderator chat room. In the ...
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Rollout of new network site themes
For the remainder of updates, see the tracking post:
Rollout of responsive design site themes - Tracking post
See updated schedule below and updated stock theme
As promised (albeit delayed), we ...
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes
As of the 9th of March, the banner shown to askers whose questions have attracted at least one duplicate close vote has a couple of new options:
If the author clicks the first button, they're shown a ...
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Build and strengthen the Stack Exchange community with "crossover questions" between sites
I've been a Stack Exchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on travel.SE. One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different Stack ...
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Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver?
Not long ago, we gave folks that have a gold tag badge the ability to instantly mark a question as a duplicate of another. This has worked out exceptionally well in practice. While there have been ...
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Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
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